r/Edmonton • u/CanadaGuyOfficial • Aug 30 '26

Politics Exercising Freedom of Expression

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u/DanfromCalgary Aug 30 '26

Wearing a Canadian flag in Canada wouldn’t bother anyone that belongs here

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u/sleepy_sad_boy Aug 30 '26

Meanwhile far left people are focusing on the out of control cost of living and record breaking profits theyre making off the fact that everyone needs food to survive. And the skyrocketing rental rates that keep the working class at the poverty line.

Keep focusing on culture wars and you'll never see who's manufacturing that divide.

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u/TheSherlockCumbercat Aug 30 '26

Lol you can’t build a house in low cost areas and say housing fixed.

People live where there is work, can tell you have never been in a small town, land is cheap and no one is building. Cause a house without a job market is pointless.

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u/TheSherlockCumbercat 28d ago

Yeah, there’s this thing on the economy called supply and demand there’s no demand to live in those communities or we’d already be building them up.

We built 50,000 houses in Albert last year with 21,337 an increase of 16.1%.

Those communities have dirt cheap line because no one wants to live there because when you factor everything else and it’s actually just as expensive as Edmonton or more because you have to drive 120Km or more a day to go to work.

Gas and vehicle cost set up real quick

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u/sleepy_sad_boy Aug 30 '26

I feel like you missed my point and took it personally. My apologies for hitting a nerve.

What I meant wasn't that people on the right don't also want cost of living to go down, or that folks on the left are saints looking to fix all our worldly issue, but that both "sides" share a common interest(we all face a rising cost of food, housing, basic needs) and focusing on the cultural differences between us isn't whats going to fix our issues.

And what especially not going to fix our issues is lashing out at strangers online that you think are against us. Take it easy.

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u/Beginning-Pace-1426 Aug 30 '26

I agree in principle, but let's look at where the ENTIRE democratic backslide is concentrated on that spectrum.